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Cromwellian (iou)



Cromwellian adjective & noun. M17.
[from Cromwell (see below) + -IAN.]
A. adjective.
Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658), English soldier, statesman, and Puritan leader of the Parliamentary forces in the English Civil War and Lord Protector 1653-8. M17.
Designating a Cromwell chair. E20.
b. noun. A supporter of Cromwell; one of the English settlers in Ireland following Cromwell's defeat of the Irish and the Act of Settlement of 1652; a descendant of such a settler. L17.